§ Mr. TylerTo ask the Secretary of State for Health when she expects to announce her conclusions on the Bloomfield review on the future system for the remuneration of dentists.
§ Dr. MawhinneyI refer the hon. Member to the reply my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State gave my hon. Friend the Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Nigel Evans) on 18 January at column98.
§ Mr. TylerTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what estimate her Department has made of the total fixed capital in the hands of the dentists in Cornwall and of the return on that capital over the last five years;
(2) if she will publish the assumptions used by her Department when seeking to estimate the fixed costs of a dental practice in different parts of England.
§ Dr. MawhinneyWe have made no such estimates. Average national health service dental practice expenses in Great Britain are estimated each year by the Dental Rates. Study Group and full reimbursement of these costs to dentists on an average basis is included in dental fees.
387WThe return on capital is one of the factors that the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration takes into account when recommending target average net income for dentists.